Human pathogen killing corals in the Florida Keys
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 - 22:30
in Biology & Nature
A research team has identified human sewage as the source of the coral-killing pathogen that causes white pox disease of Caribbean elkhorn coral. Once the most common coral in the Caribbean, elkhorn coral was listed for protection under the United States Endangered Species Act in 2006, largely due to white pox disease.